Sentences with phrase «first silicon transistor»

l Silicon: Bell Labs developed the first silicon transistor in 1954, which led to the Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, released in 1971.

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«Our technology, in terms of transistor density, is at the stage of silicon technology in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when the first microprocessors came out,» Jung says.

Easy to use and abundant, silicon has been the go - to transistor material for decades, but in February, the world saw the first silicene transistor.

Intel's new Tri-Gate transistors, first demonstrated last May, replace those flat channels with thin, rectangular silicon pillars, or «fins,» that rise above the surface of the chip.

Plastic Logic is the first company to manufacture transistor arrays (basically a matrix of transistors) on plastic instead of using silicon on glass.